If movies generically don't work, you immediately start to pick apart what ingredients contributed to that. If any movie is working, hopefully how it was made will be the least of your concern. You'll only want to have a god time.

The Internet has been this miraculous conduit to the undeniable truth to the Holocaust.

My head's not in the clouds, but I think I've gotten too much credit for being an astute businessman.

Because of how much movies cost, it's dangerous to be experimental on one film after the other. But we can experiment with television. We can do things that are fringe and bring ideas to the table that are offbeat and original.

The delicate balance of mentoring someone is not creating them in your own image, but giving them the opportunity to create themselves.

I think Lincoln had a unique parenting style. He let his kids run free and wild.

I'm not in a race with anybody to make the biggest hit movie anymore. I am just trying to tell stories that I can stay interested in for the two years it takes me to supervise the writing and to direct them.